Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-10-28
COURT DAY At LUHAY.

Last Monday was court-day in
Page. By previous announcement
DIR. King and Riddleberger appear
ed to speak for the Republicans
1t did not work a great surprise tC
anybody when Tom Whitehead
Hon. Charlie OFerrall and Mr.
VIII Alexander appeared on the
scene. DR.. King spoke to rous
ing audience on the outside of the
courthouse, and Whitehead spoke
on the inside of the court house,
assembling a small audience after
agreement for a division Of time.
This valiant night of negro anec,
dote rot would divide only on con-
dition that he should open and
conclude, and even these terms
were accepted. The impression
made by DR.. King in a plain state
ment from the standpoint ofa bus.
mess man was altogether favorable.
DR.. SmOOt was on the stand for
awhile; he looked as pale as a
piece of washed.Out red tape, and
when the meeting was over there
was a general inquiry for SmOot.
He had vamoused the ranch. King
stayed there; so did the people.
IL was made apparent to the peo-
pie present that King represented
principles, Smoot only name. 1t
was made the more apparent by
the fact that King remained with
the assembled people of Page until
the meeting closed, while a SherifTs
posse committus couldn't have
found SmoOt.
The meeting was large aud re-
spectacle not IN the sense that
John p. Hale's was large and re-
spectacle, where only two men
were assembled, the one being large
and the other respectable. At this
meeting the voting population Of
Page was assembled, and they gave
DIR. King and his friends a hearing
which for patience and attention
was never excelled. DR.. SmOOt,
though present, did not present
himself, but was represented by
that prince of original funders,
Tom Whitehead.
Tom did his best, but Smoot was
honest.
Riddleberger banded phrases
with Whitehead, whom he had met
before, when the gay eagle Of Am.
herst and Lynchburg was a repre-.
sentative Of interests in no sense
Virginlan.
Ii was in 1881 that Riddleberger
met Tom Whitehead at Fincastle
within voice reach of his grand
fathers grave. 1t was that year
that the people Of Page and Shen.
andOah gave Cameron a majority
for governor, and it was that year
that Page, Shenandoah and an en-
tire majority Of the counties of the
state, sat down very heavily on
and the theories of that
day. In Page, the witty and
me King thomas cat from Amherst
was prolific of witticism and argu-
nent OH the side Of Hugh McCul-
och, then the president Of a bank
n Great Britain. In Page, on
Monday, he posed as a champion
Of States Rights, and really made |
IN Herculian effort to make the 1
people of Page believe that he and /
lis party represented every princi-
lie that underlies the institutions
f this government.
Tom is good fellow, ont what
10 did not know is so thoroughly
by the "Oliye Branch
nd the history of this country
rom the time that James Madison
Yas Secretary of State, under the
administration OF Thomas
efferson, who offered and had pass.
q the first bill for the payment of
be expenses OF this government by
nstOms' duties, now commonly
illed u tariff, that without further
nswer Thomas will go back to
.mherst or to Lynchburg q wiser.
not "A better man.
Tom actually said he and bis
lrty were in favor of the repeal of
10 internal revenue tax. We have
much confidence in Toms gener-
intelligence that we cannot cOn-
u.le that he has not better judg-
ent than to hope that intelligent
,ople, such as he talked to, could
,lirve for a moment that this
nntry could do without the reve-
10 derived from customs duties, :
llesu they would resort to a SIS i
m of direct taxation. Indeed !
,m was so plausible and insinuat- Q
e that many old Democrats OF +.
age could not bat help to divine :
Q purpose for which he was b
ought there. lc